Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
cart, car
Parts:
Variants:
lightly, trifling, unimportant
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
790 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 軽 【ケイ】 light (e.g. aircraft, truck), light motor vehicle (up to 660cc and 64bhp), kei car
  • 軽快 【ケイカイ】 light (of movements), nimble, sprightly, springy, light-hearted, cheerful, buoyant, jaunty, casual (e.g. clothing), rhythmical (e.g. melody), taking a turn for the better (of an illness), receding of symptoms, recovery, convalescence
  • 軽々 【ケイケイ】 indiscreetly, thoughtlessly, carelessly, frivolously
  • 酌量減軽 【シャクリョウゲンケイ】 reduction of punishment in the light of extenuating circumstances
  • 軽忽 【キョウコツ】 indiscreet, thoughtless, absurd, laughable, disdaining, belittling
  • 常不軽 【ジョウフキョウ】 Sadaparibhuta (bodhisattva)
  • 剽軽 【ヒョウキン】 facetious, droll, funny

Kun reading compounds

  • 軽い 【かるい】 light (i.e. not heavy), feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily), light (i.e. of foot), effortless, nimble, agile, non-serious, minor, unimportant, trivial, slight, small, gentle, soft, easy, lighthearted (e.g. joke), easy, simple, indiscriminate
  • 軽石 【かるいし】 pumice stone
  • 軽やか 【かろやか】 light, easy, non-serious, minor
  • 軽んじる 【かろんじる】 to look down on, to make light of

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qing1
Korean:
gyeong

Spanish

  • ligero
  • insignificante
  • poco serio
  • fácil

Portuguese

  • ligeiramente
  • insignificante
  • sem importância

French

  • léger
  • insignifiant
  • sans importance
387 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
287 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
269 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
650 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4620 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
598 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
258 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1657 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
547 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
556 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
116 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1775 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1909 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1015 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1372 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
724 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38281 Morohashi
1515 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5953 New Nelson (John Haig)
717 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
774 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
395 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1572 2001 Kanji
7c5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-5 SKIP code
5701.4 Four corner code
1-23-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8efd Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
house on cliff 广
Parts:
广
degrees, occurrence, time, counter for occurrences, consider, attitude
Kun:
たび-た.い
On:
タク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
110 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 度 【ド】 degree (angle, temperature, scale, etc.), counter for occurrences, strength (of glasses), glasses prescription, alcohol content (percentage), alcohol by volume, extent, degree, limit, presence of mind, composure
  • 度 【ド】 precisely, exactly, plumb, totally, very much, damn, stupid, cursed
  • 重度 【ジュウド】 severe (illness, disability, etc.), serious
  • 濃度 【ノウド】 concentration, density, cardinality
  • 法度 【ハット】 ban, prohibition, taboo, something forbidden, law, ordinance (esp. in the middle ages)
  • ご法度 【ゴハット】 forbidden, prohibited, banned, taboo
  • 忖度 【ソンタク】 surmise (about someone's feelings), guess, conjecture, (showing) deference (to), consideration (of someone's wishes), servility
  • 臆度 【オクタク】 guessing, speculation, supposition, hypothesis

Kun reading compounds

  • 度 【たび】 time (three times, each time, etc.), times
  • 度数 【どすう】 frequency, number of times, incidence, degree (e.g. temperature), strength (e.g. alcohol, lens, etc.)
  • 中度 【なかたび】 midway (through), halfway
  • 千度 【せんど】 thousand times

Readings

Japanese names:
のり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du4, duo2, duo4
Korean:
do, tag

Spanish

  • grado
  • vez
  • veces

Portuguese

  • graus
  • ocorrência
  • tempo
  • sufixo para contagem de para ocorrências

French

  • degré
  • occurrence
  • fois
  • compteur d'occurrences
288 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
377 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
356 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
83 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1511 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
252 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
165 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1009 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.6 Japanese for Busy People
377 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
378 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
333 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
588 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3844 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1974 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2670 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1202 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9313 Morohashi
3100 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1616 New Nelson (John Haig)
1194 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1278 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
72 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
340 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
567 2001 Kanji
3q6.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-6 SKIP code
3-3-5 SKIP code
0024.7 Four corner code
1-37-57 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ea6 Unicode hex code

20 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
Variants:
state of suspension, hang, depend, consult, distant, far apart
Kun:
か.けるか.かる
On:
ケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
889 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 懸賞 【ケンショウ】 offering a prize, prize competition, prize, reward
  • 懸案 【ケンアン】 pending question, unresolved problem
  • 倒懸 【トウケン】 hanging (someone) upside down
  • 懸案 【ケンアン】 pending question, unresolved problem
  • 懸念 【ケネン】 worry, fear, anxiety, concern
  • 鈴懸 【スズカケ】 plane tree (esp. the Oriental plane, Platanus orientalis), hemp overgarment worn by Shugendō practitioners
  • 手掛け 【テカケ】 handle, mistress, kept woman, concubine

Kun reading compounds

  • 掛ける 【かける】 to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall), to let hang, to suspend (from), to hoist (e.g. sail), to raise (e.g. flag), to put on (e.g. a blanket), to put on top of, to cover, to lay, to spread, to put on (glasses, etc.), to wear (a necklace, etc.), to make (a call), to spend (time, money), to expend, to use, to pour (liquid) onto, to sprinkle (powder or spices) onto, to splash, to throw (e.g. water) onto, to turn on (an engine, radio, etc.), to set (a dial, alarm clock, etc.), to put on (a DVD, song, etc.), to use (a device, implement, etc.), to cause (someone inconvenience, trouble, etc.), to burden (someone), to impose, to multiply (arithmetic operation), to secure (e.g. lock), to take a seat, to sit, to rest (something on something else), to support (something on something else), to bind, to wager, to bet, to risk, to stake, to gamble, to put an effect (spell, anaesthetic, etc.) on, to hold (a play, festival, etc.), to hold an emotion for (pity, hope, etc.), to argue (in court), to deliberate (in a meeting), to present (e.g. idea to a conference, etc.), to increase further, to catch (in a trap, etc.), to set atop, to erect (a makeshift building), to apply (insurance), to pun (on a word), to use (a word) as a pivot word, to play on words, to be partway doing ..., to begin (but not complete) ..., to be about to ..., to address (someone), to direct (something, to someone), to do (something, to someone)
  • 掛かる 【かかる】 to take (a resource, e.g. time or money), to hang, to come into view, to arrive, to come under (a contract, a tax), to start (engines, motors), to attend, to deal with, to handle, to have started to, to be on the verge of, to overlap (e.g. information in a manual), to cover, to (come) at, to be fastened, to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.), to be caught in, to get a call, to depend on

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xuan2
Korean:
hyeon

Spanish

  • suspender
  • colgar
  • depender
  • estar suspendido

Portuguese

  • suspender
  • pendurar
  • 10%
  • instalar
  • depender
  • consultar

French

  • suspendre
  • pendre
  • 10%
  • installer
  • dépendre
  • consulter
1225 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1275 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1790 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1283 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1328 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2984 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
911 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
933 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
450 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
806 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3632 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1855 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2532 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1406 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11462 Morohashi
2915 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2011 New Nelson (John Haig)
1394 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1495 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1930 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1258 2001 Kanji
4k16.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-16-4 SKIP code
6233.9 Four corner code
2233.9 Four corner code
1-23-92 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
61f8 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
wish, sense, idea, thought, feeling, desire, attention
On:
ネン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
390 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 念 【ネン】 sense, idea, thought, feeling, desire, concern, attention, care
  • 念願 【ネンガン】 one's heart's desire, one's dearest wish
  • 執念 【シュウネン】 tenacity, persistence, obsession, implacability
  • 通念 【ツウネン】 common idea, common wisdom, generally accepted idea

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nian4
Korean:
nyeom

Spanish

  • deseo
  • pensamiento
  • sentimiento

Portuguese

  • desejo
  • sentido
  • idéia
  • pensamento
  • sentimento
  • atenção

French

  • désir
  • souhait
  • sens
  • idée
  • pensée
  • sentiment
  • attention
689 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
590 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
561 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
469 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
424 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
316 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
532 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
670 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
579 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
588 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1117 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
774 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2554 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1304 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1773 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1604 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10390 Morohashi
2059 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1800 New Nelson (John Haig)
1590 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1715 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
333 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
514 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2858 2001 Kanji
2a6.24 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-6 SKIP code
2-4-4 SKIP code
8033.2 Four corner code
1-39-16 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ff5 Unicode hex code